Chapter 74

Ruan Zhonghua took the meat and said goodbye to Susie, "We have to go, hurry up and get there before dark."

Susie held the meat with two fingers, "Don't go, just have dinner here before going back."

Ruan Zhonghua said, "Next time, it's not convenient today."

Susie glanced at Ding Yuanchao who was full of impatience, and said nothing, "Then be careful on the road."

At this moment, Qiao Mu came over, took the meat from Susie's hand, stood behind her, and looked at Ruan Zhonghua calmly.

Ruan Zhonghua wanted to say a few words to Susie at first, but he swallowed the words when he met Qiao Mu's seemingly calm gaze, and he waved his hand, "Let's go, you-you are free, go to the seventh row to play with us .”

After sending Ruan Zhonghua off, Susie looked at her watch, "It's almost five o'clock, let's go back and cook."

She searched in the crowd and saw Tian Xiaohui and Yuan Gang, "Let's go, our meat is also divided, go back and cook."

When I returned to the collective household, I saw that Zhao Tingting and Zhu Zhicheng were already there.

Zhao Tingting took advantage of the fact that no one was plucking the bird's feathers, and the rice was steaming on the stove.

Seeing Susie coming in, she said, "Don't you like beautiful things? I plucked the hair from the pheasant's tail and put it in the house for you."

"Ah, Tingting really understands me." Susie was very happy.

Zhu Zhicheng said: "I skinned the four wild rabbits, salted them, and now they are hanging in our house."

He, Qiao Mu and Yuan Gang were the only three living in their room, and they didn't take pictures to be discovered.

Susie gave him a thumbs up.

Zhu Zhicheng said: "I think the rabbit skin is quite good. When you ask a cobbler to tan it, it can be useful."

Tian Xiaohui said from the side: "Make a scarf! How many can you make from four rabbit skins?"

Su Qian said: "There's no rush, save up for now, and we'll talk about it later."

She picked up the Shau Kei, "I'll go to Aunt Lan's house to pick some food."

When we arrived at Liao's house, Aunt Lan was cooking, and Uncle Liao was sitting on a chair flipping through a book.

Su Qian said: "Uncle Liao, you don't know yet, we killed wild boars today, and the team is dividing the meat, according to the head, everyone has a share."

Aunt Lan poked her head out from the stove, "Did you kill wild boars?"

"Liao Zhenyuan, hurry up, there will be nothing good later."

Ruier heard it and ran out of the house, "I'll go, I'll go!"

Uncle Liao put down his book and chased his son on crutches.

When Susie was walking towards the backyard, she glanced at the book on the chair, it was "Book of Changes".

She went to the vegetable garden at the back to get some ginger, garlic and chili peppers, and also dug up some carrots.There are cabbage and wax gourd in Zhu Zhicheng's vegetable patch, which is enough to eat.

It was a hearty meal in the evening, a pheasant and a bird were stewed in a large pot.

Chen Changqing came in to eat, glanced at the unknown meat in their pot, and smiled at Su Qian, "Next time Zhonghua asks you to hunt, invite me to go with you, I know Zhonghua well."

He also admired Susie, he tried his best to catch up with Ruan Zhonghua, Ruan Zhonghua was always lukewarm to him, but Susie became friends with Ruan Zhonghua without any effort.

He knew the identity of Ruan Zhonghua's father, and guessed that Su Qian's background was unusual.

Although he has released some vague information to the outside world, making people misunderstand that he is a high-ranking son, but he dare not pretend to be like Ruan Zhonghua and Su Xi.

Su Xi and Ruan Zhonghua don't take money as money, and he can't learn how to treat people like they are equal but arrogant.

His father is just the director of a street processing factory, in charge of more than a dozen women, and he is still a hundred and eight thousand miles away from the children of high-ranking officials.

Susie knew that Ruan Zhonghua didn't like this person, so she agreed vaguely.

After eating, Zhao Tingting marinated the wild pork. It's only October and the temperature is still relatively high. If you don't marinate the meat, it will spoil.

Wild pork and rabbit meat and pheasant were hung in Zhu Zhicheng's house together.

After hanging for a few days, they secretly took out the trees at night, smoked them with pine branches, and brought them back to the house.

This morning, the loudspeaker in the village that often plays revolutionary songs rang, and it was Xu Zhiqiang's voice, "All the members of the croissant production team, at eight o'clock this morning, a meeting of all members will be held. Please attend the meeting on time."

After the official words were finished, Xu Zhiqiang continued: "Everyone should be more active in distributing food today."

Su Xi and the others were having breakfast in the stove house, and Zhao Tingting began to worry again, "I don't know if I can share ten catties of food? It seems that I have to borrow it."

"But how much do I have to borrow? I don't know how much."

Tian Xiaohui said: "In the past, our grain book didn't have 25 catties of grain per month. I read it when my mother and I went to the Red Star Grain Store to buy rice."

Zhao Tingting patted her head, "Yes, why did I forget this."

She said worriedly: "But I feel that I can eat more when I come to the countryside. I eat less than a catty of grain a day."

Susie nodded, "I can eat more than before. It should be because of the heavy physical labor every day, and the food is not oily."

I used to rack my brains to lose weight, but I didn’t eat less when I came here, but I didn’t see any growth.

Tian Xiaohui said: "Me too, I have to borrow food too, I want to borrow all rice, flour is also fine."

Zhu Zhicheng couldn't help laughing, "How is that possible? We don't produce much rice, and besides, we don't grow wheat here, and we don't have flour."

"However, this is not called borrowing, it is called owed, and it is called owed to the householder, which means that one year's work points are not enough for rations."

He explained: "The state stipulates that regardless of coarse grains and fine grains, the rations of rural laborers should not be less than 360 catties a year. Even if the work points are not enough, they must be paid to avoid starvation."

Su Qian, Tian Xiaohui and Zhao Tingting all sighed at the same time, they must become defaulters this year.

Zhu Zhicheng looked at the appearance of these people and comforted him: "You don't have to worry, the educated youth has a monthly subsidy of [-] catties of food in the first year, and the work points only account for [-]% of the distribution, and the remaining [-]% is divided according to the head. Everyone has it, otherwise, what about those old people and children? After all, you shouldn’t owe much.”

"For some families, there are many children and elderly people, and those with little labor will owe a lot to the team after a year."

"As long as we educated youths are not lazy, we can still earn a year's ration."

Chen Changqing heard what they were talking about, so he interjected, "Brother Zhu is not bad, he is the production team leader who takes the lead in our team, and he is also an activist. He has the highest wages in our village every year, similar to the team leader."

"In addition to rations, I can get a lot of money a year."

Everyone looked at Zhu Zhicheng in admiration, Zhu Zhicheng was a little embarrassed, and lowered his head to eat the porridge.

After breakfast, feed the chickens and water the vegetable garden.

It was still early, Zhu Zhicheng and the others went up the mountain to cut firewood.

When it was almost eight o'clock, everyone packed up and went to the sun-drying field, but they didn't see the trees.

Zhao Tingting asked, "Where did Qiao Mu go?"

Yuan Gang said: "He said he had something to do, so he went out after breakfast."

(End of this chapter)

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